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Can the Intel Arc A770 16GB run LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B?

27Basic quality (D) · 27 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q6_K it needs about 8.7 GB of 16.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 48.1 tok/s.

Best quant
Q6_K
Generation speed
48.1 tok/s
Prompt processing
2,855 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.4 s
Largest safe context
32K

Best app to run it on the Intel Arc A770 16GB

On Windows

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

  • Intel GPU support here is experimental (Vulkan).
  • One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  • Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.
ollama run llava:7b-v1.6-mistral-q6_K

On Linux

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

  • Intel GPU support here is experimental (Vulkan).
  • One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  • Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.
ollama run llava:7b-v1.6-mistral-q6_K
  • Docker Model Runner Handy if you already work in Docker.
  • vLLM For one person, llama.cpp-based apps are about as fast and use smaller GGUF files.

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B

Recommended for the Intel Arc A770 16GB: Q6_K. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run llava:7b-v1.6-mistral-q6_K

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from LLaVA, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/llava-hf/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 22 hours ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 27Basic quality (D) · 27 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q6_K, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great
How well it runs on the Intel Arc A770 16GB: speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.12.5 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.12.5 / 15
Match score65.0 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the Intel Arc A770 16GB

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 5.5 GB 16.0 GB 114 tok/s Runs great 19Basic quality (D) · 19 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q3_K_M 6.2 GB 16.0 GB 89.7 tok/s Runs great 23Basic quality (D) · 23 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 59/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q4_K_M 7.1 GB 16.0 GB 69.4 tok/s Runs great 26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q5_K_M 7.8 GB 16.0 GB 57.3 tok/s Runs great 27Basic quality (D) · 27 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q6_K 8.7 GB 16.0 GB 48.1 tok/s Runs great 27Basic quality (D) · 27 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q8_0 10.5 GB 16.0 GB 35.3 tok/s Runs great 28Basic quality (D) · 28 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
F16 17.6 GB 16.0 GB 10.3 tok/s Runs welloffloads to RAM 28Basic quality (D) · 28 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 45/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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